A Multi-Perspective Approach to Narratives in Health Communication: : Anthony Acheampong: Bloomsbury Academic

A Multi-Perspective Approach to Narratives in Health Communication

Description

This edited volume offers an accessible avenue for improving health and well-being by demonstrating the power of narrative in advocating for yourself, your family, and your community. Leading scholars of health communication draw on a variety of perspectives, theories, and methodologies and incorporate their own personal experiences of narratives to demonstrate the compelling reasons why narratives should be studied and applied in a wide range of health contexts. Each chapter contains future directions for advancing research and applying narratives to encourage readers to explore what narratives for health mean for themselves and others.

Chapter 1: Identity Formation: Intraindividual and Interindividual Processes across the Lifespan
Diliara Bagautdinova and Amanda Kastrinos
Chapter 2: Confronting our Ultimate Fear Through Narrative: Death Portrayals in Entertainment and Acceptance of Death
Anneke deGraaf and Enny Das
Chapter 3: There's No Place Like Home: Narrative Resources for Soul Hunger Healing
Jill Yamasaki and Laura Laine
Chapter 4: Narratives in Doctor-Patient Communication
Chiarra Fioretti
Chapter 5: The Temporal and Imaginative Nature of Narrative Sensemaking: The Worlding of Possibilities among Mis/fits
Lynn M. Harter, Jill Yamasaki, and Patty Mitchell
Chapter 6: “The Beautiful Awful”: How Communicated Narrative Sense-Making about Difficulty and Illness Relates to Health and Well-Being
Jody Koenig Kellas and Cassidy Taladay-Carter
Chapter 7: The Development and use of Digital Story Banks to Foster Place-Based Narrative Labor
Lynn M. Harter, Hylie Voss, Megan Westervelt, Colin Cameron, Chuck Kaminski, Jorge Castillo-Castro, Anthony Acheampong, and Francis Ametepey
Chapter 8: Storytelling Narrative Communication and Community-Based Intervention Research
Rosanna DeMarco, Mary E. Cooley and Sun S. Kim
Chapter 9: Exemplification Theory
Elisabeth Bigsby and Minhey Chung
Chapter 10: Entertainment-Education Theory: A Story in Five Acts
Callie Kalny, Nathan Walter and Robin Nabi
Chapter 11: Implementing Family-Centered Care Through Narrative: Meeting Families Where They Are to Promote Healthier Outcomes
Carla Fisher and Gemme Campbell-Salome
Conclusion
About the Editor and Contributors

Product details

Published	Jul 10 2025
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	282
ISBN	9798765154137
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	10 tables
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing